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Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, Northeast, and East: a Comparison Chapter 10 Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, Northeast, and East: A Comparison Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave 10.1 Introduction Albania, the small mountainous country located in the southwest Balkan Peninsula, has represented—and still represents today—a fascinating place for travelers and scholars to visit. Although the current borders of Albania were delineated in 1912, a number of Western European explorers and ethnographers traveled across the Albanian-speaking areas of the Balkans well before this date, invariably seduced by the overwhelming hospitality and austere characters of the Northern Albanians. A few of them also described the local folk-medical and food customs, providing a historic record of such practices in this region (Cozzi 1909, 1914; Durham 1923; Doda 2007). The preservation of the Albanian identity, forged via the linguistic and cultural customs, has represented, in turn, a crucial constant of Albanian history, which un- derwent the establishment of Greek colonies, centuries of Roman rule, the Byzan- tine Empire, successive migrations of Slavic and Germanic groups from the North, five centuries of Ottoman domination, and, in the last century, the Italian fascist occupation during the Second World War, four decades (1945–1991) of the most tough communist dictatorship Europe had and the subsequent isolation of the coun- try from the rest of the world. Perhaps due in part to this unique history of the past decades, Albania seems to uniquely offer ethnobiologists what they would probably call a “paradise”: Hundreds of kilometers of untouched nature, a largely (still) tra- ditional agricultural and especially pastoral lifestyle in the mountainous and rural A. Pieroni () University of Gastronomic Sciences, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 9, Pollenzo 12060, Italy e-mail: [email protected] C. L. Quave Department of Dermatology and Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University School of Medicine, 550 Asbury Circle, Candler Library 107, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 183 A. Pieroni, C. L. Quave (eds.), Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-1492-0_10 184 A. Pieroni and C. L. Quave Fig. 10.1 Study areas in Albania, 2004–2014 areas, amazing natural arenas and views, and folkloric treasures to discover in re- mote places, which can be often accessed only using rough terrain vehicles. Moreover, the Albanian mountains also represent a promising hotspot of biological diversity and local customs, as well as a rich repository of living—and yet not heavily studied—traditional botanical knowledge. These factors could play, in turn, a central role in the development of community-based management strategies for local natural resources, as well as sustainable ecotourism, small-scale herbal trade, and high-quality niche foods. Today, Albania already provides a large portion of the medicinal and aromatic herbs marketed in Europe, also due to an established “tradition,” which was heavily reinforced during the communist period of gathering, drying, and trading wild medicinal plants (Kathe et al. 2003; Londoño 2008; Pieroni et al. 2014a, b). 10.2 Field Studies Over the past decade (2004–2014), several villages of the Albanian North, North- east and East were visited (Fig. 10.1) during a series of ethnobotanical field studies. Specifically, communities in the upper Shala Valley, upper Kelmend (Fig. 10.2), Mt. Korab (Fig. 10.3), and Gollobordo participated in these studies. In-depth open and semistructured interviews were conducted with elderly members of these communities, and informants were selected using snowball-sampling tech- niques. Informants were asked about traditional uses of food and medicinal plants 10 Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian … 185 Fig. 10.2 Summer settlements in the pastures of upper Kelmend (in use until a few decades ago or still in use today). Specifically, study participants were questioned about the local name(s) of each quoted taxon, the plant part(s) used, in-depth details about its/their manipulation/preparation, and actual medicinal or food use(s). Interviews were conducted in Albanian, sometimes with the help of a simultane- ous translator. Prior informed consent was always verbally obtained prior to con- ducting interviews and researchers adhered to the ethical guidelines of the American Anthropological Association (AAA 2012). During the interviews, informants were always asked to show the quoted plants. Taxonomic identification was conducted according to all the published volumes of the Flora of Albania (Paparisto et al. 1988; Qosia et al. 1992; Qosia et al. 1996; Vangjeli et al. 2000). Local names were transcribed following the rules of Ghegh Albanian standard language, which is the Albanian spoken in Kosovo and North (and Northeast) Albania. 186 A. Pieroni and C. L. Quave Fig. 10.3 Landscape of the Albanian side of Mt. Korab 10.3 Results In the following tables, we present the most commonly quoted and used wild (folk) taxa for the upper Shala Valley of northern Albania (Table 10.1), upper Kelmend of northern Albania (Table 10.2), Mt. Korab of Northeast Albania (Table 10.3), and Gollobordo of eastern Albania (Table 10.4). Genera or species that were among the top ten of cited botanic taxa in at least two of the study sites are underlined. 10.4 Discussion 10.4.1 The Pastoralist Nature of the Albanian Ethnobotany The most commonly quoted and used wild food plants in the four considered areas are Urtica dioica, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, and Rumex spp., which are used as vegetables mainly cooked with dairy products and rice or, more often, as filling for homemade savory pies, traditionally made using flour created from local variet- ies of white maize. These plants represent the most common taxa to be found in the proximity of the houses and summer settlements in the mountainous ecosystems. Importantly, these species represent the vegetables of the Albanian pastoralist cui- sine, which is characterized by a regular and large consumption of several dairy products, staples derived from the introduced maize and potato crops, occasionally beef, goat, pork (only among the Catholic Albanians of the north) and lamb meat, beans, and a few cultivated (onions, garlic, cabbage, and peppers) and wild plants. It is interesting to note that while Chenopodium bonus-henricus is more com- monly used in the north, Rumex spp. (mainly Rumex patientia) dominates in the northeast and east, while nettle is definitely the wild vegetable of all Albanian cuisines. With regard to the most important medicinal plants, in all northern, 10 Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian … Table 10.1 Most commonly quoted used wild food and medicinal plants in the upper Shala Valley, northern Albania (Pieroni 2008) Botanical taxa Part(s) used Traditional food or medicinal uses Chenopodium bonus-henricus L., Leaves Boiled and used with cream and/or butter as stuffing for byrek and laknur (savory pies) Amaranthaceae Cornus mas L., Cornaceae Fruit Eaten raw, also as a food medicine to relieve intestinal troubles in children . It is macerated in barrels for 1–2 months, and then distilled to produce raki ( raki thanit). This is consid- ered the best raki. It is also used medicinally to relieve rheumatism (both drunk and rubbed on externally). Fruits are also boiled for 30 min in water and macerated to produce vinegar Gentiana lutea L., Gentianaceae Roots Macerated in raki and drunk as a treatment for heart diseases. Gathered, dried, and sold in the city markets, especially in the past Hypericum spp., Hypericaceae Flowering aerial parts Infusion ( caj) of the dried aerial parts is used to treat abdominal pains, especially in children Applied with salt and tobacco leaves to heal wounds Origanum vulgare L., Lamiaceae Flowering aerial parts Infusion ( caj): drunk regularly throughout the year as a “social beverage” and also specifi- cally for treating sore throats and colds (especially in children) Plantago major L., Plantaginaceae Leaves Used externally as a hemostatic on wounds. In infusions for treating abdominal pains. In the past, it is gathered, dried and sold in the city markets Rumex spp., Polygonaceae Leaves Boiled and used with cream and/or butter as a stuffing for pies ( byrek and laknur) Tilia cordata Mill., Malvaceae Flowers Infusion ( caj) used to heal coughs, colds, and sore throats Urtica dioica L., Urticaceae Leaves Boiled and used as filling for savory pies ( byrek and laknur) with fresh butter ( burro- fresko) or clarified butter ( tëlynë) Rubbed on externally to treat arthritis Vaccinium myrtillus L., Ericaceae Fruit Eaten raw or in infusions ( caj). Also as eaten as a dried fruit for treating sore throats or for relieving digestive troubles 187 A. Pieroni and C. L. Quave 188 Table 10.2 Most commonly quoted and used wild food and medicinal plants in the upper Kelmend, northern Albania (Pieroni et al. 2005; Pieroni 2010) Botanical taxa Parts used Traditional food or medicinal uses Chenopodium bonus-henricus L., Amaranthaceae Leaves Eaten cooked, as filling for savory pies ( byrek), generally adding various dairy products, especially cream and preserved butter Fragaria vesca L., Rosaceae Fruits Eaten raw or in jams Gentiana lutea L., Gentianaceae Roots Macerated in plum distillate ( raki) for 1–2 days in cold water and drunk for the prevention of heart disease Hypericum maculatum Crantz, Hypericaceae Flowering aerial parts
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